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Paul fucking Kent...Dogs to give Barrett $3m cheque book as Penrith allow him to start talks over replacing Pay
Trent Barrett during his time as Manly coach
Penrith have granted assistant coach Trent Barrett the freedom to speak to Canterbury as Dean Pay’s time at Belmore looks to be coming to an end
Canterbury have won just one game all season and Pay, whose contract expires later this year, has come under increasing scrutiny.
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Barrett, whose last full-time coaching role was at Manly, headed to the foot of the mountains to work with Ivan Cleary.
Once at the Panthers, he is credited with transforming their attack.
A number of other coaches have been linked with the Bulldogs job, but speaking on NRL360 on Fox League, The Daily Telegraph’s Phil Rothfield said that the Panthers were letting Barrett speak to Canterbury
“Greg Alexander, who works at Fox and is an influential director at Penrith has basically given Barrett permission to talk to them,” Rothfield revealed.
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Barrett’s spell at Manly was not short of controversy, but it was the view of the NRL360 panel that he would have learned from his mistakes.
“He’s running Penrith’s attack,” The Daily Telegraph’s Paul Kent explained.
“Last year Penrith couldn't score and Barrett’s turned up this year and just reinvigorated their attack.
“I tell you my concern, there’s no doubt he knows his footy but the concern is that when he didn't have the infrastructure around him at manly and I don't know if he’s really going to get it at Canterbury.
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“The issue won’t be his football coaching. Des (Hasler – current Manly coach) has the ability to coach the minutiae of the playing structure and all that but also handle all the salary cap and all the personalities and tells the CEO how they’re going to do things.
“There’s no doubt that Barrett will have learned from his experience at Manly and then having had the year away.”
Fox League’s chief reporter James Hooper made that point that Barrett, unlike Pay, would have a full salary cap to spend.
“He’s got a $3m chequebook to go into the market, but he has also got factionalism left right and centre,” Hooper said.